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Whistle-Blower Protection Was Mired in Big Backlog

Updated April 18, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Your March 31 Politics & Policy article "Crying Foul at Whistle-Blower Protector" was misleading regarding our efforts to enforce civil servants' rights in the federal workplace and unfairly maligns the dedicated civil servants who daily defend whistle-blowers and other federal workers on such dangers as air traffic control violations, food supply dangers, illegal land acquisition and contracting, danger to hospital patients, and danger to nuclear weapons facilities. But the Office of Special Counsel's ability to protect civil servants was hampered by a chronic backlog of hundreds of cases that I inherited...